Tips For Effective Mock Teaching

Hi everyone,

 Today I just want to share few tips which I have observed and learned from my lecturers and teachers on “How to Prepare for a Mock Teaching”.  So here we go,

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The student who are doing mock teaching should be themselves in the first place. It is because due to the preparation and the nervousness to do it well, we tend to forget the trade mark of ourselves. For an example, a student who is so funny, hyper active and etc. The student can be so unnatural and they even tend to stammer while presenting in front of people.  Students must be relax and focus on what need to be present, so that it would not be a presentation lack of content. It is hard but practice makes it possible.

2.     Chill out and breathe.

It is easy to do a mock teaching or any presentation when you are not nervous. It is because, when a person gets nervous they will start to sweat, facial expression will change, burst into tears, and worse come to worse they will faint.  While presenting  the presenter should be relaxed and with full confidences the presentation should take place, then the presentation will be a piece of cake.

 

  It is OK to do mistake while presentation, it is because we have our professionals (teachers, lecturers and trainers) to help us all the time. When we make mistakes and we will learn more how to do the particular thing more perfectly. Remember everyone learns from mistakes.

3.    Take a view of the exercise from a student’s mentally.

For a mock teaching we will be required to do lesson plan and come up with activities to be done with the students. To make the activity more interesting, think from a student’s view. So that we can identify whether the activity is interesting or not.   Thus, it will help us to come up with more activity which can attract student’s interest.

4.    Do student centered teaching.

To make the lesson we prepare more student centered, we can inject more interesting educational activities such as crossword puzzle, scrabble, Q&A sessions and etc.  Ask them to do it, when they do it. They will learn more, experience last longer than theories. Hence, the content can be conveyed in a interesting way.  It   will make the lesson more interesting and it can be an effective teaching and learning process.

5.    Be approachable.

Be a teacher who can be easily approach when students face difficulties such as how to complete the homework correctly, when discipline problem raise, to get advice for personal problem and etc. Such characteristic can make a teacher to be carrying about their student and to bring changes in their life. It can be implement in mock teaching by asking your students, how was their day?, had their breakfast or not ? and more.

Those are the things which I have learned from the previous mock teaching which I and my friends did.  Hope it could be improved in the future and useful for the reader. Thank you for reading my blog and give your feedback by commenting. Hope you had a great time. See you soon.